Now celebrating its seventh edition, World Summit AI Americas returns to Montréal to connect the AI community with two packed days of AI content, on April 15 and 16, 2025. The progressive event brings together global AI leaders from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment to tackle the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda. This edition features a slew of important themes, including enterprise use-cases of AI in action, responsible AI and governance, and building the foundation for next-generation AI.
A cornucopia of stellar content
Forbes Magazine has described World Summit AI Americas as “a global force for good, focusing the attention of the data science and business communities on how our most cutting-edge tools can deliver a brighter future for us all.”
It’s an honour for Montréal to be so synonymous of this prestigious international event, having hosted its in-person events since 2019. The event was first created in 2017 by the UK-based firm Inspired Minds, which boasts 20 years of experience in technology and large-scale, festival-style summits and unites the world’s largest and most active AI community: 220,000 in more than 160 countries.
Important Montréal voices onstage
The 2025 summit will seek to answer a variety of probing questions for participants and will rely on local as well as international expertise. As home base to leading AI organizations like MILA (the Montréal Institute for Learning Algorithms), IVADO (Institute for Data Valorisation), big business initiatives like Microsoft, Meta, Samsung and Google, and an ever-growing crop of trend-setting startups, Montréal is at the international forefront of artificial intelligence technologies.
Some of the brightest minds in Montréal’s AI scene speak regularly at the World Summit AI, known for having the best-of-the-best speakers every year:
Yoshua Benjio. Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
Joëlle Pineau. Pineau is VP of AI Research at Meta as well as a faculty member at Mila and an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the School of Computer Science at McGill University. Her research ranges from seismic developments in healthcare, to AI, to gaming. Her work at McGill in utilizing AI to improve the treatment of heart disease and cancer has earned her a Governor General’s Innovation Award.
Doina Precup. Precup is Research Director at Google DeepMind, a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Chair in the School of Computer Science at McGill University and a member of MILA’s scientific committee.
Irina Rish. Rish is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Operations Research Department at the Université de Montréal and a core faculty member of MILA. Her research focus is on machine learning, neural data analysis and neuroscience-inspired AI.
Adriana Romero Soriano. Romero Soriano is a research scientist at Meta AI (FAIR), an adjunct professor at McGill University, a core industry member of MILA, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Her research includes building models of the world with the goal to improve impactful downstream applications responsibly.
Natalie Mayerhofer. Mayerhofer is Associate to the Chief Learning Officer at the CHUM. During her international career, she has developed expertise in innovation policy, program evaluation, strategic planning and the applications of AI in healthcare.
To learn more about the conference and all its stellar speakers, watch here for the upcoming 2025 lineup.
Cheat sheet
Event: World Summit AI Americas
Dates: April 15 and 16, 2025
Venue: Palais des congrès de Montréal
Information: americas.worldsummit.ai
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